Koronos (son of Kaineus)

Koronos ( Greek  Κόρωνος ), the son of Kaineus , was a king of the Lapiths in Greek mythology . He lived in Gyrton in Thessaly and had two sons Andraimon and Leonteus and a daughter Lyside . He took part in the voyage of the Argonauts .

Because of border disputes, war broke out between the Lapiths and the Dorians . So Koronus went to the field against Aigimios and was finally killed by Heracles , who came to the aid of the Dorians.

swell

• Library of Apollodor 1, 112; 2, 154; 3, 130.
• Apollonios of Rhodes , Argonautika 1, 57.
• Diodorus , Libraries 4, 37, 3.
• Flavius ​​Philostratos , The Pictures 2, 24.
• Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 14; 97.

literature

• Konrad Seeliger : Koronos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1390 f. ( Digitized version ).